Pop Art

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Do your kids love Pop Art as much as mine do? Something about Pop Art seems to resonate with "every" child each time I do a Pop Art lesson.

For this lesson, the students created 3 different drawings on small 4" x 4" pieces of white computer paper. Then they chose one of the drawings to use as their master for creating 4 prints inside 4 quadrants of a 9" x 9" piece of white construction paper.

Here are instructions for the lesson below, but if you'd like more precise instructions, with blackline masters and another version to use with younger kids...Check out my "Andy Warhol/ Crayon Pop Art Lesson" available as a PDF download. It also includes student friendly background information about Andy Warhol and Pop Art.

Each student will need the following materials:
pencil
3 pieces of 4x4" computer paper
1 piece of 9x9" white construction paper
Black Sharpie for tracing.
Crayons, pastels, or markers for coloring.

Step 1 - Using a 4x4" paper, first they each drew a CRAYON, following my directed drawing lesson on the board. Then they each drew a SOUP CAN, again following my directed drawing lesson on the board. Lastly, they created their own drawing of a "popular" object.

Step 2 - Students chose one of their drawings and created 4 prints of it on their 9x9" construction paper. To make the prints, students slanted pencil and filled the backside of their drawing with lead. Then turned the drawing over and traced it with pencil onto the construction paper.

Step 3 - Students traced that print with black marker.

Step 4 - Repeat steps 2 & 3 until all four quadrants of the sqaure have an image drawn in black.

Step 5 - Color.







Really big thanks to Mrs. Venn's students at Flamson Middle School!

Kermit King Elementary Artist

Who says the colors have to be realistic? :)

One of my little Pop Artists

San Benito Elementary Artist
Kids love, love, love Pop Art!

San Benito Elementary artist

Kermit King Elementary Artist

Teaching a Pop Art lesson at San Benito Elementary. This is an Andy Warhol poster titled "100 Cans". Every time I teach this lesson, kids want to know if there really are 100 cans? (We then count together, 10 down and 10 across, mental math 10x10, then they believe me when I say, "Yes, there really are 100 Campbell Soup cans in this poster.")

One of Andy Warhol's famous prints of Marilyn Monroe. He started making prints of her in 1962 soon after she died.
Andy Warhol is the artist known to have characterized the philosophy that there isn't a distinction between fine arts and commercial arts. Attributing the word "art" to magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums, advertising campaigns etc. is done now because of this perception Andy Warhol illuminated. He once said, "When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. "
Today, the Andy Warhol Museum can be visited in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Andy Warhol, 1928-1987

Kermit King Elementary Artist